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REMOVABLE HUT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5. I916.

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AUGUS'IIN ADRIAN, 0F PARIS, FRANCE.

REMOVABLE HUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

Application filed December 5, 1916. Serial No. 135,175.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AU UsTIN ADRIAN, citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, 57 Rue Pigalle, have invented new and useful Improvements in Removable Huts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to portable building structures, and my object is to provide a structure which may be readily assembled and disassembled, by unskilled workmen if necessary, and without the employment of special tools.

'The invention consists of various details and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a partially completed building, embodying features of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the spacing of the roof rafters and vertical supporting posts therefor; ,7

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a partially completed building embodying features of my invention; 7 V 7 Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view illustrative of the manner of connecting the purlins with the roof rafters;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the panels or sections used in constructing the roof;

Fig. 6 is a similar view of a partially completed roof; and r Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating the manner of supporting the roof rafters.

It is my aim to provide a portable building which may be quickly constructed, by unskilled labor if necessary, and to that end 1 preferably employ planks or boards as building material, held together by bolts, passing through bolt holes which may be previously formed in the boards.

Referring to the drawing, the roof rafters consist of parallel bars or boards 10 spaced a suitable distance apart by means of blocks 11, each of which is provided with an open-.

ing 12, for a purpose to be described. The roof frame is composed of these rafters arranged at a suitable angle on each side of the center line of the structure, and are joined at such center line by a longitudinal beam which consists of the parallel bars 13 and 1 k between which is secured the intermediate bar 15. The bars 13 and 14 are notched or out at intervals to receive in such notches the upper ends of the roof rafters, as shown particularly in Fig. 6.

As shown in Fig. 5, the roof covering may be made up of separate panels, each consisting of overlapped boards 16 held together by transverse boards 17 secured at intervals to the lap boards by nails or equivalent fastening means. Carried by the roof rafters are grooved stringers 18 over which the boards 17 are placed, these stringers acting asgutters through which water may flow to the ground from the roof. Over the meet ing edges of the panels, boards 19 are nailed or otherwise secured, to firmly attach the roof covering to the roof frame.

The ends of the roof rafters stop a desired distance short of the ground, and near the end of each rafter is a vertical supporting post consisting of the parallel boards or planks 20, between which is a board 21 one end of which projects beyond the adjacent ends of the planks 20. The projecting end of the intermediate board 21 is designed to be secured between the bars 10 which constitute the rafters of the roof thus providing a firm connection at one end between the vertical posts and the roof frame. At its opposite end the board 21 stops short of the adjacent ends of the boards 20 thus forming a space designed to span the vertical member 22 of a shoe which consists of such vertical member and a horizontal member 23 designed to rest on the ground. By securing the latter end of the vertical post to the shoe 2223 a firm connection between the root rafter and the ground is obtained.

Extending diagonally from an intermediate point of each roof rafter to the outer end of each shoe 22-23 is a strut which consists of parallel boards 24 and an intermediate board 25, the latter having one end projecting beyond the adjacent ends of the boards 2% and being secured in position between the boards 10 which constitute the rafter. At its lower end the board 25 stops short of the adjacent ends of the boards 24: thus leaving a space so that the opposite boards 24: may span and be secured to the vertical member 22 of the shoe 22-23.

To impart strength and rigidity to the structure, 1 preferably provide at each side thereof purlins 26 which are held in the openings 12 in the blocks 11 of the roof rafters, and also additional purlins or longitudinal planks 27 which are held at the points where the vertical supporting posts cross the diagonal struts. The purlins 26 are provided with oppositely disposedslots or notches designed to be engaged'by the orificed blocks 11.

The roof may be completed by a ridge covering 28 and suitable doors 29 and windows 30 may be provided, as desired. Tie bars 31 are preferably provided to securely hold the rafters in proper relative positions.

I mayv and preferably do cover the roof, and also the sides and ends of the structure if desired, with a coating of some suitable Weatherproofing material.

What I claim, is:

1. In a portable building, the combination with a skeleton frame comprising inclined rafters connected at their apices and having their outer ends, terminating a substantial distance above the ground, a relatively short shoe resting on the ground below and remote from the outer end of each rafter and in the same vertical plane as such rafter, a vertical post having its lower end engaging a point near the inner end of each shoe and its upper end engaging a .point of the corresponding rafter near its outer end, and an inclined post or strut connecting a point near the outer end of'said shoe with a point intermediate the ends of the said rafter, said posts crossing each other and said last named point being nearer the apex of the rafter thanthe point at which the upper end of the vertical post engages such rafter; of a covering for said skeleton frame.

In a'portabl: building, the combination with a skeleton frame comprising oppositely inclined rafters connected at their apices and having their outer ends terminating a substantial distance above the ground, a relatively short shoe resting on the ground below and remote from the outer end of each rafter and in the same vertical plane as such rafter a vertical post having its lower end engaging a point near the inner end of each shoe and its upper end engaging a point of the corresponding rafter near its outer end, an inclined post or strut connecting a point near the outer end of said shoe with a point intermediate the ends of the said rafter, said posts crossing each other and said last named point being nearer the apex of the rafter than the point at which the upper end of the verticalpost engages such rafter, lengthwise of the places of the skeleton frame.

3. In a tion with a sitely inclined rafters connected at their apices, a relatively short shoe resting 'on' the ground below the outer end of each'rafter and in the same vertical plane as such rafter, a vertical post connecting a point near the inner end of each shoe with a point of the corresponding rafter near its outer end, an inclined post or strut connecting a point near the outer end of said shoe with a pointy inter mediate the ends of said rafter, saidposts" crossing each other, purlins resting on said and purlins eatendin structure at the crossing rafters approximately over thepointsf where the latter are connected to said inclined posts, and addltional'purlins extending lengthwise of the structure at the crossing places of the posts; of a covering for said skeleton frame comprising roof and Wall portions.

In testimony whereof I have signed name'to thisspecification in thepresen'ce' of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

VHENRI MoNIN,

CHAS. P. PRnssnY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five 'cents each. by addressing the. Commissioner of 'fathtia, Washington, D. C. a I i i posts; of a covering for said portable building, the combina j skeletonframe comprising oppo- AUeUsTIN ADRIAN. 

